Veech groups, irrational billiards and stable abelian differentials
Ferran Valdez
| Number | 57 | 
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| Author | Jose Ferran Valdez-Lorenzo | 
| Project | B09 | 
| Year | 2009 | 
We describe Veech groups of flat surfaces arising from irrational angled polygonal billiards or irreducible stable abelian differentials. For irrational polygonal billiards, we prove that these groups are non-discrete subgroups of SO(2,R) and we calculate their rank.

 
            